I do that frequently. I’ll start reading something (and it’s interesting!) But something else will grab my attention instead. I frequently have 2 or 3 books I’m rotating through depending on my mood.

I do that too Derek but it drives me nuts sometimes. I also read nautical fiction, and am currently reading book twelve of a twenty book series on the life of a captain in the British navy prior to and during the Napoleonic War. It’s escapist lit. but if I’m going to escape reality for a while I’d rather do it on the ocean in a frigate. Oh well, back to Dennet.

Hell, wait until you’re an old fud. It annoys me when I pull a book out of my book shelves, that I haven’t looked at in, say, twenty or thirty years, and find a card in it about half way through indicating that I only got that far. And it’s happening more and more frequently as I make up boxes of books to give the local library.

Hell, wait until you’re an old fud. It annoys me when I pull a book out of my book shelves, that I haven’t looked at in, say, twenty or thirty years, and find a card in it about half way through indicating that I only got that far. And it’s happening more and more frequently as I make up boxes of books to give the local library.

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Church; where sheep congregate to worship a zombie on a stick that turns into a cracker on Sundays…

I participated in the survey for people who are in mixed secular/religious marriages and then pre-ordered the book. It came this week and I’m loving it. In Faith and In Doubt by Dale McGowan. He starts with some general discussion, using very recent data, including his own. He talks a lot about how people don’t fit the stereotypes. Anti-Theists like Hutchens are representative of 20% of atheists. There are even 6% of self-labeled atheists who also say they believe in God, more that believe in a spirit of some kind. Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger, that’s what the data says.

He then goes in to details of 12 stories of real couples. Interesting so far. One couple starts out with a moderate Christian and a guy who doesn’t care, then suddenly he gets religion causing her to rethink and ending up atheist. Much more entertaining than the endless YouTube about fundamentalists.

Currently reading Universe in a Single Atom by the Dali Lama. It’s actually very refreshing. He’s very open minded, very cosmopolitan, and calls himself an internationalist. And he says he has worked hard to convince other ranking Buddhists to embrace science and to modify their own beliefs in accord with new findings.

Currently reading Universe in a Single Atom by the Dali Lama. It’s actually very refreshing. He’s very open minded, very cosmopolitan, and calls himself an internationalist. And he says he has worked hard to convince other ranking Buddhists to embrace science and to modify their own beliefs in accord with new findings.

The Dalai Lama has said two things that I wish all religious leaders would say. 1. If something about his religion was studied and found to be inaccurate, he would consider changing his religion. 2. He doesn’t care if you follow Buddhism or call yourself a Buddhist, it’s more important that we all care for each other and the planet.